Let's pretend you are a Roman official and you are arriving in Caesarea Maritima. What are you thinking? Well, let's say into any sort of maritime Roman provincial capital.... You would have seen ...

One of the most famous facial reconstructions of any individual from the Greco-Roman ... Other authors indicate portraits were not always made solely for accuracy. The Roman writer Claudius ...

Brøns noted, “The modern perception of ancient Greco-Roman sculpture is influenced ... has even discovered traces of beeswax on a portrait of Queen Berenice II, suggesting that it underwent ...

For decades, the portraits lingered in a sort of classification limbo, considered Egyptian by Greco-Roman scholars and Greco-Roman by Egyptians. But scholars increasingly appreciate the ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.

Cecilie Brøns, who authored the study and works as an archaeologist and curator at the Glyptotek art museum in Copenhagen, finds that Greco-Roman statues were often perfumed with enticing scents ...

Let's pretend you are a Roman official and you are arriving in Caesarea Maritima. What are you thinking? Well, let's say into any sort of maritime Roman provincial capital.... You would have seen ...